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Sanada reports on the casualties suffered during the recent battle, including Yuki's condition. Despite his best efforts, there's nothing Dr. Sado can do to save her with the resources aboard the Yamato. Sanada suggests placing her in the stasis chamber in the Auto-Navigation room. There, a shadowy figure (recognizably Mamoru) looks at the CRS core.

The Yamato temporarily regains comms with Earth, long enough to report they're on their way back with the CRS. Todo notices Okita is not on the bridge and is told about the captains worsening condition. Hijikata also notices Yuki is not there and is distraught to learn what happened to her. But the signal soon breaks up, much to Aihara's dismay.

While she's taking a break and drinking a cup of coffe in one of the observation decks, Niimi spots Mamoru's reflection in the window. She turns in shock but he's not there.

Yuki is placed in the Auto-Nav room. A sadened Kdai plays his harmonica for her, while Yurisha's flowers lie in a jar in the corner. The shadowy Mamoru spectre stands behind him.

Tokugawa visits Okita and the two goe on a stroll down memory lane. As Tokugawa leaves and goes down the stairs, Mamoru stands at the captain's door.

Despite his best efforts, Aihara can't get the comms signal back up. Kodai shows Shima a wedding invitation for none other than Kato and Makoto. While she's trying her wedding dress, Kato talks about how Kodai has been going around with a happy face, even though he's hurting inside.. Later, as she tends to the chambers systems, Makoto sees Yuki move inside the capsule.

Sanada and Niimi study how the CRS seems to be emmiting a strage energy pattern throughout the ship, resembling a brain network, as if the CRS and the Yamato are a living entity of some kind.They are called to the Auto-Nav room by Sado, as is Kodai. When he gets there, Yuki has just flatlined. Kodai is heartbroken but he asks those present - Sanada, Sado and Makoto - to keep Yuki's death a secret, in order to maintain the crew's morale, now that they're so close to the end. Above them, the CRS core glows eeriely.

(End of Act One)

(Act Two)

The wedding party. Kodai stands in the middle of the festive crowd and plays his part. Kato finally makes peace with Kodai and, much to Makoto's horror, hurges Kodai to keep the faith that Yuki will pull through (he doesn't know she's dead XD).

In the WMG chamber, turned into the CRS chamber, Sanada and Niimi discuss the true nature of the CRS and Mamoru's final fate. Kodai wonders the corridors, aimlessly, arriving at the Auto-Nav hatch. Inside, Mamoru, finally fully revealed, looks at Yuki. He turns as he hears Susumu entering the chamber. Kodai embraces the lifeless Yuki, remembering their history since they first met in the underground city, tears streaming down his face. Behind him, his big brother watches. Mamoru says something to Susumu and suddenly the CRS comes to life in a flash of light, shutting down afterwards. Sanada and Niimi observe the process, unable to intervene. The CRS is dead.

In the Auto-Nav chamber, Kodai is stunned when Yuki suddely opens her eyes and his tears of sadness are replaced with tears of endless joy. His embraces Yuki and the two finally kiss. Beside them, in the corner, Yurisha's flowers have fully bloomed.

Sanada and his team are incapable of rebooting the CRS. It's completelly dead. Sanada looks at the core and yells "Mamoru... No! Yamato... Is this what you wanted? What you wished for?"

The Yamato circles the Moon and Earth is now in sight, to everyone's joy. In his quarters, Okita ask Dr. Sado to give him a minute alone. As he leaves, Okita says "Sado-sensei... Thank you." Sado steps out, in tears. Holding his family photo, Okita looks up at the Earth and as tears stream down his face he hutters his final words: "The Earth... filled with my fond, old memories..."
The photo falls to the ground as Dr. Sado steps inside. He realizes what just happened and salutes the fallen warrior.

At that exact moment, the CRS reactivates, the core gleaming with energy, much to Sanada and Niimi's amazement. Niimi closes her eyes, bathed in the light and we hear Mamoru:"Goodbye, Sanada. Goodbye..., Kaoru."

Kodai enters the main bridge carrying a very much alive Yuki. Everyone is overjoyed and, following Yamamoto's lead, salute the young couple. Sado comes in but holds his tongue as to not spoil their mood, though he is happy to see Yuki's back. The Yamato flies to the night side of Earth, her engine glow fading in the Earth's shadow.

(Fade to Black)

Captions reading: "On December 8th, 2199, the Space Battleship Yamato returned to Earth".

The cast credits begin to roll. As they end faded clouds become visible as the camera pans up to reveal a blue horizon. The camera flies away from the Earth rotating to reveal a shining blue sphere glowing in the sunlight.

Interesting. Elsewhere you mentioned this episode is the longest as well. I know people can handle that, but can networks handle that?

Spoiler for Ending?:

Judging by what you saw in the ending and how the CRS was suppose to work, is their grounds for a sequel at some point using the same ship and crew.

Also what were their casualites? I've repeatedly heard flack given to this show for their not being enough people dying in these battles. Yet i seem to recall in the original they had reported something like 60% casualties at the reunion in Farewell to Yamato. Of course that movie resulted in around 85% or more casualties, and a destroyed ship.

After reading part of a thread on Something Aweful Forum about Yamato 2199, I think the English wikipedia needs to be updated to reflect some of what is on the Japanese wikipedia on the series. (mostly because I don't want to spend $10 just to straighten out facts on SA Forum about the ranks and uniforms)

I've not played with wikipedia (or at least not in a long while). But the Japanese entry on the ranks, color divisons, and the commanding officer's uniform colors would probably be enough added information, as there are confused people out there that are not liking the show because they can't understand who has what rank and think the colors are random. (also it might be pointed out that the three bars on their shoulder is suppose to be their name and position, just you never see that in the show as it is too small to read...but it shows up in promotional materials).

For the commanding officers, it seems color coded as well by ship type. But it might not be all that concrete (or they are running out of ship captains). It is orange, green, and red. Orange is suppose to be for the destroyer captains. Green is the Cruiser captains, and Red is the battleship captains or admirals.

The problem with this is that the only captains we see in are:
Momoru Kodai (orange with a red uniform?) destroyer captain.
Okita's son (orange) unknown command
A cruiser captain at Pluto (orange)
Shima's father (green) cruiser captain
Yamanami (green) battleship captain
Hijikata (red) Admiral
Okita (red) Admiral/battleship captain

The other option is that was from the division they came up through the ranks as. Perhaps seen in the dress uniforms on Iscandar. Though that still doesn't explain Mamoru's red uniform and orange coat collar. All the other commanding officer seem to be in white uniforms.

Capt. Yamanami's colar was green, though his coat was the same as Okita and Hijikata (whose collar is orange, not red), only slightly shorter. Another difference is Yamanami, Okita and Hijikata's insignias and uniform details (cap shield, shoulder stripes, trim, etc.) are golden over black, Mamoru's are silver over dark grey. So maybe that's a captain thing. We never saw any other captains of a Yukikaze class destroyer or around the same rank level of Mamoru so this is a mere guess. But Okita's son has the same jacket (grey with silver details) as Mamoru, unfortunately there's no piece of his uniform showing so we can't say for certain wether or not it is orange also.

Oh, and just to add to the confusion, the guy that seems to be the captain of the battleship Abakuma (the one that gets hit by the destroyer Shimakaze), seems to be wearing a standard crew uniform but with a captain's hat instead of a blue cap.

I guess captains and admirals uniforms as well as dress uniforms have a more detailed system to it than usual. The UNCN and UNCF uniforms back on Earth and in the Fleet were also a bit different that what Yamato's crew wears. The silver and gold shoulder ranks must be confusing as we see people with silver bars in dress uniforms, yet what do warrent officers and enlisted wear for such things since they have silver bars normally. And Sanada had a gold cheveron in his green uniform on Earth. Was that not a dress uniform? So many questions.

I'm going to assume the Earth book has the answers to these questions.

Anyway, just under six hours until the series ends. Then we shall see where they go afterwards. An October 6th announcement would be spectacular.

WTF, and it is still set in 2199 or are they just using it as a temporary brand name? So a single movie with Garmilas vs White Comet? Please not an adaptation of A New Journey. Please not an adaptation of anything.

Well, there is a lot of the year 2199 left after Yamato left Iscandar and Gamilas behind. Yamato probably wasn't doing much, but the Gamilas probably were.

They have lost a lot of ships in their war against Yamato. That's got to hurt the reputation of the Empire. Then you have the internal problems between the Military and the Imperial Guard. Dessler? And whatever rebuilding they do with Iscandar's help. There could be rebellions. Or the other worse thing that would tie in as a bridge that will effect Earth later, the Comet Empire invades Gamilas space.

No telling how much of the Gamilas fleet is gone, but they lost thousands of ships against Yamato. Maybe as many as ten thousand from al engagements. Some of their best commanders and ships. Part of their subspace network is down. The chain of command might be iffy. Most of their largest ships are gone now from what I can tell. If the Comet Empire was going to cause havoc, this would be the time.

In the original, the Yamato was guilty of causing volcanic eruptions on the already almost desolate Garmilas home planet. Now, it has done the blunder of blowing up Balun and destroying the majority of the Garmilas fleet. Of course, they may have justified it to Starsha by saying that it was for self defense. In this version, we also see Garmilas as Iscandar's guardian of sorts despite having opposing views in being an arms race. So there is kind of an irony going on.

I had always thought Yamato almost destroying Garmilas in the original deemed itself as an aggressor and in 2199 it is trying to contrast that.

Perhaps Garmilas losing its fleet will make it more of a humble civilisation.

In the original, the Yamato was guilty of causing volcanic eruptions on the already almost desolate Garmilas home planet. Now, it has done the blunder of blowing up Balun and destroying the majority of the Garmilas fleet. Of course, they may have justified it to Starsha by saying that it was for self defense. In this version, we also see Garmilas as Iscandar's guardian of sorts despite having opposing views in being an arms race. So there is kind of an irony going on.

I had always thought Yamato almost destroying Garmilas in the original deemed itself as an aggressor and in 2199 it is trying to contrast that.

Perhaps Garmilas losing its fleet will make it more of a humble civilisation.

I think the Gamillas still have enough ships to defend their realm, but not enough to defend the conquered territories in the Milky Way and the Small Magellanic Cloud.
The era of the conquering empire is over.